Greece remains the biggest risk for the eurozone, Alexander Dobrindt, general secretary of Germany's conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) has said. "I still believe that Greece's exit would be a possible long-term alternative for Europe and for Greece itself," he told Die Welt am Sonntag newspaper,...

There's a sad lesson about urban planning in the trend of major archaeological finds turning up under parking lots in the United Kingdom. Or maybe it's a happy lesson. It's hard to tell. Archaeologists just announced the discovery of headstone bearing the marks of nobility at the site of a new building being constructed in Edinburgh. Th...

A preserved Coldstream Guards button and soldiers in modern ceremonial dress and the skeletal remains of the unknown soldier with a decomposed button found at the site The 200-year-old body of a British Coldstream Guards soldier was found in sand dunes in the Netherlands. Who was he? For more than two centuries, the remains of a soldier l...

Is cannibalism the seed from which the United States sprang? Historical accounts have long hinted that the settlers at Jamestown, the first English colony in America, survived the harsh winter by feasting on the dead. Via CNN , researchers now have physical evidence in the form of bodily remains: The winter of 1609 to 1610 was treacherous...

LONDON (AP) — Archaeologists who unearthed the skeleton of England's King Richard III under a municipal parking lot say they want to dig up a 600-year-old stone coffin found nearby. University of Leicester scientists say they hope to learn more about the medieval Church of the Grey Friars, where Richard was unceremoniously buried after h...

Archaeologists said on Friday they had found a graveyard during excavations for a rail project in London which might hold the remains of some 50,000 people killed by the "Black Death" plague more than 650 years ago.

In news that will likely delight Apollo 11 deniers, Roswell frequenters, and Illuminati enthusiasts alike, archaeologists have discovered hundreds of mysterious, once-metallic spheres buried deep beneath an ancient pyramid in Mexico City. And we have absolutely no idea what they’re for. Described by Jorge Zavala, an archaeologist at Mexic...

Mystery Of The Ancients: Curse Of The Black Water , you travel to the remote island town of Black Water, investigating the mysterious disappearance of two archaeologists when you encounter a mythical monster straight from the ancient myths of Poseidon! What cursed secrets have these archaeologists unearthed beneath the town? Now it’s up t...

Scientists have discovered remains of a massive catering-type operation in Egypt that fed more than 1,814 kilogrammes of meat everyday to the builders of the famous Giza pyramids Archaeologists found the ancient remains at a workers' town near the pyramids. The town is located about 400 metres south of the Sphinx, and was used to house w...

Archaeologists working in and around the Crossrail tunneling efforts that are currently cutting London a new hole have made a shocking discovery, which could be the tip of an iceberg consisting of some 50,000 plague victims. Diggers have unearthed what they believe might be a graveyard beneath Farringdon, a part of London believed to have...

It's official: the human remains found under a parking lot in Leicester, England, belong to Richard III. That's the word from University of Leicester archaeologists, who on Feb. 4 said that DNA evidence, radiocarbon dating, and archaeological evidence all confirm that the battle-scarred bones belonged to the English king , who was killed...

By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY — Archaeologists in Mexico say they have found an unprecedented human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman was found near Mexico City's Templo Mayor surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones. Experts say the Aztecs usually cremated the remains of high-ranking members of their society, and even a...

WTF?!? Minnesota Hospital Accidentally Sends Stillborn Remains To Laundry Via AJC A Minnesota hospital said Friday that missing remains from a stillborn baby presumed to have been wrapped in linens at the hospital morgue likely was sent to a laundry service that discovered another stillborn’s remains earlier this week. Regions Hospital of...

Curses, musical scores and a fisherman swallowed by a whale: Archaeologists’ fascinating quest to decipher medieval graffiti scrawled on cathedral walls The daily lives of medieval townsfolk have been brought to light by an extraordinary haul of graffiti found in Norwich Cathedral. Messages have been scratched into the walls of the histor...

Swiss politician Oskar Freysinger’s display of a German Reich war flag in his cellar is “problematic”, according to Martine Brunschwig Graf, president of the Federal Commission Against Racism. The flag should be taken down, she said.

Tunisian president, Moncef Marzouki, has testified in the investigation into the slaying of opposition politician, Chokri Belaid, AFP reported on Thursday. Prior to his killing on February 6, Belaid was reportedly receiving death threats, prompting the investigation. The late politician was an outspoken critic of the government before he...

Israeli archaeologists are baffled by a giant cone-shaped structure submerged beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee. Twice the diameter of Stonehenge and weighing more than ten elephants, a mysterious cone-shaped structure on the bottom of the Sea of Galilee is challenging archaeologists to determine its purpose and age. The mound was...

Beppe Grillo is the Italian grassroots politician who rocked the recent elections with 1/3 of the vote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beppe_Grill o He really seems to understand quite a bit about finance. Reminds me of George Carlin. The video is from 1998:...

Picture: PD The Hanging Garden of Babylon may not have been in Babylon, after all: Via The Guardian The whereabouts of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – the fabled Hanging Garden of Babylon – has been one of the great mysteries from antiquity. The inability of archaeologists to find traces of it among Babylon’s ancient remai...

In an embarrassing turn of events, an Australian politician was injured during a run-in with a kangaroo. While the kangaroo that attacked Canberra politician Shane Rattenbury was reportedly just spooked by its unexpected encounter with a human, we can’t help but wonder if the menacing marsupial didn’t have loftier political goals in mind.

Two episodes into 'The Politician's Husband' , and any semblance of harmony in the home of these two Westminster luminaries was thoroughly dispelled. Anybody who still thought that David Tennant only had the hammy Casonova or arch Time Lord in him, would have been disturbed by the acting chops he brought to bear on MP Aiden Hoynes, brough...

SD. The Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominguez Brito, headed yesterday the exhuming of the remains of Colonel Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deño, which will be analyzed in the National Institute of Forensic Science (Inacif) in order to determine if they really are the remains of the hero of the April 1965 War. The act was also...

Technical outlook and chart setups The metal remains sideways, but the bias would be towards buying on dips. It is recommended to hold on long positions initiated earlier, and buy the remaining on dips towards 21.20/40. Resistance remains fixed at 23.40, followed by 24.00, 25.00 on the higher side; while support is at 22.00, followed by 2...

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has called Enrico Letta, a 46-year old centre-left politician, to ask him to form a government. Letta, a former MEP, would be the youngest Italian PM in 25 years and could reconcile the centre-left and the centre-right, as his uncle was Silvio Berlusconi's chief of staff.

The tributes to Margaret Thatcher have her endlessly depicted her as a conviction politician - but history will find the reality less consistent, more complex. Those who bother to drill down into the myth soon realise that she was as mutable and movable as any other politician, too often an empty vessel waiting to be told what to do and t...